Review of Baby Doll (1988) by Sherryl B — 10 Mar 2009

Great movie, very amusing and the girl a cutie...and about the censorship, what is worng with american?

This review of Baby Doll (1988) was written by Sherryl B on 10 Mar 2009.

Baby Doll has generally received positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Baby Doll

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Rick Q (325) on 16 Jul 2012

The performances are good, but elia kazan's baby doll is so slow and doesn't really go anywhere when it's all said and done…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By John B (4,244) on 14 Jul 2013

Oh what a subversive film for its time. Karl Malden and Eli Wallach are tremendous as the plot unfolds to an uncertain ending. Tremendous…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Andrew B (2,971) on 20 Dec 2010

Tennessee Williams play brought to screen and sumptuously directed by Elia Kazan, Baby Doll is artful dark comedy, wicked even in it's telling…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Private U (13,627) on 14 Jul 2008

This Tennessee Williams screenplay is cast perfectly--Malden, Baker,and Wallach all do outstanding jobs making this under-age teaser a tragicomedy…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Steve W (2,154) on 16 Dec 2014

From the writer of A Streetcar Named Desire comes another Tennessee Williams's masterpiece…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Dfw F (70) on 28 Oct 2009

The first half felt like a hot mess, but watching a perfect cast who knew how to push each other's buttons always makes a movie…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Leonard Z (45) on 09 Sep 2009

To think...that this was deemed pornographic back in the 50's. Carol Baker was erotically sizzling on the screen…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Raeann (15) on 01 Jun 2008

Interesting film classic. Silly at times, with great performances by Baker and Wallach…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Audrey L (130) on 11 Feb 2011

More Hyper-Drama From Tennessee Williams It had been a long time since I saw this…

Read Review

Review of Baby Doll (1988)

By Lino C (32) on 29 Jan 2011

Tremendously erotic film! Great performances…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of My Bloody Valentine (2009)

By Vicc. (1) on 17 Jan 2009

Worst movie I have seen in years. save your money. save your brain cells. save yourself... from this horrific movie 3D isn't even that great…

Read Review

Review of The Beach (2000)

By Vrossi (9) on 29 Nov 2011

One of the most terrible films I've ever seen. Very degrading to the country and its culture. Nonsense plot and terrible acting…

Read Review

Review of Dead Silence (2007)

By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Jun 2017

A conflation of the horror genre's laziest tropes, plot angles and shorthands, this inept creation isn't so much a film as it is a smorgasbord…

Read Review

Review of The Shining (1980)

By Kurtw. (5) on 11 Jun 2007

Possibly the dumbest movie I've seen. Not scary at all. The characters and their acting were laughably bad, especially the wife…

Read Review

Review of Images (1972)

By Bobby B (292) on 01 Feb 2010

I hate movies by Robert Altman, I hate movies with no point, I hate movies with no plot, I hate movies with bad acting, I hate movies who have…

Read Review

Review of The Skeptic (2009)

By Billh (13) on 13 Jun 2009

Awful, reminded me of the 1980's. Who wasted their money to make this sorry movie…

Read Review

Review of Pi (1998)

By Spangle (1,205) on 06 Dec 2013

It felt more like a random assortment of shots more so than a film…

Read Review

Review of Hour of the Wolf (1968)

By Charles P (1,784) on 30 Jan 2015

Bergman has more uninteresting and featureless films from the early stage of his career, but this is his pointless and worst…

Read Review

Review of Possession (1981)

By Leon B (942) on 06 Jan 2014

Possession was... boring…

Read Review

Review of The Night of the Hunter (1955)

By Carldamnit (9) on 18 Nov 2018

I'm giving it a 0 because it had beautiful shots but all the conspiracy theories about why it wasn't a success in its day bother me, it's not…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Blade Runner 2049

2017

80%2,332 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

Hereditary

2018

72%1,650 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

Oppenheimer

2023

85%310 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

The Voyeurs

2021

58%19 Reviews

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

Bullet Train

2022

66%170 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Baby Doll

1988

65%85 Reviews

The Artist

2011

82%1,102 Reviews

Courageous

2011

69%702 Reviews

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

1970

58%13 Reviews

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

2009

48%584 Reviews

Amy

2015

81%700 Reviews

King of the Corner

2004

50%18 Reviews

Labyrinth

1963

70%606 Reviews

My Cousin Rachel

2017

56%250 Reviews

Thumbelina

1993

66%451 Reviews